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Reading List English Literature Version September 2019 English Department Reading List English Literature Version September 2019 Preliminary Remarks 1. The Module This Reading List contains the material for the second part of the two-semester module Literature in Context: History and Theory (the first part being the lecture). Enlarging upon the material discussed in the lecture in the first semester, students spend the second semester reading a selection of texts they chose from the Reading List. The module concludes with a final oral exam at the end of the second semester. For further information see: https://www.es.uzh.ch/en/studies/bachelor/modulesalphabetical/literatureinxontexthistoryandtheory.html 2. Aims of the Reading List This Reading List attempts to do the impossible: to represent the diversity and richness of literature in English. The list includes texts that we find both important and exciting. However, we are fully aware that many equally interesting and relevant texts are missing. Our aim, then, is not to establish a definitive canon. Instead, we want to provide you with a framework that allows you to inde- pendently explore a broader range of texts, periods and movements. The final oral exam that concludes the Literature in Context: History and Theory module builds on your previous knowledge. The exam based on the lecture and reading list will give you the opportunity to display the critical skills and depth of historical understanding you have gained in the total course of your studies. We would like to emphasize that the purpose of the reading list exam is not so much to test specificities such as dates, but to give you the chance to demonstrate your analytical abilities. It is expected that you will demonstrate close-reading skills, knowledge of appropriate critical terminol- ogy and an ability to position the texts in terms of genre and literary history. 3. Theoretical Background The reading list is to be seen in the context of the B.A. curriculum as a whole. In your first year, the Textual Analysis module provides you with basic methodological tools for the analysis of literature. The module Literature in Context: History and Theory, which you ideally take either in your sec- ond or third year, together with the B.A. seminars of your choice, will help you refine your ability to analyse texts by placing them in larger thematic, theoretical and historical contexts. The follow- ing texts are useful to extend and reinforce your understanding of the theoretical approaches and concepts to which you have been introduced in both the Textual Analysis and the Literature in Con- text modules: Reading List English Literature Version September 2019 ► Peter Barry. Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory. 4th ed. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2017. (ISBN 978-1526121790) ► Jonathan Culler. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. 2nd ed. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. (ISBN 978-0199691340) 4. Reading Requirements The texts in the reading list are divided into three generic categories. Your final selection must con- tain a certain number of items from each category, namely: ► eight items from the prose section, i.e., novels, non-fiction works, sets of short stories ► eight items from the poetry section, i.e., excerpts from epics, long poems, sets of short poems ► four items from the drama section: four plays, two of which must be by Shakespeare ► twenty items all in all In the reading list, all periods are numbered. When making your selection, please note that each period from (1.) to (5.) needs to be represented by at least two items. You may freely combine British and North American texts, however, choosing your own emphasis: British, Irish and other North American literature literatures in English (1.) Early modern period (late 15th to early 17th century) (1. and 2.) Colonial period and revolutionary era (17th to late 18th century) (2.) Long 18th century (3.) Long 19th century (3.) Long 19th century (4.) Modernism and after (4.) Modernism and after (5.) Contemporary period (5.) Contemporary period The basic textbooks are the 6-volume (or, 2-“package”) editions of The Norton Anthology of Eng- lish Literature and The Norton Anthology of American Literature, which first appeared in 2018 and 2017, respectively. However, most of the “Norton selections” of poetry or non-fiction prose men- tioned below can also be found in earlier 2-volume editions of these anthologies. Of course, not all texts featured in the list are included in the anthologies: novels and plays, in particular, must be consulted separately. Please note that instructors may add further specifications and restrictions concerning your selection of texts. 5. The Exam The oral exam will take place towards the end of the spring semester (the second semester of the module). During the exam, a second instructor will be present as a Beisitz. 2 Reading List English Literature Version September 2019 BRITISH LITERATURE (1.) Early Modern Period: Late 15th to Early 17th Century Prose Drama Poetry Sir Thomas Malory Anonymous Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder (1503-42) ► Morte Darthur (1485), Norton selection ► Everyman (after 1485) ► 4 poems from the Norton selection Sir Thomas More Thomas Kyd (c. 1558-94) Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-47) ► Utopia (1516) ► The Spanish Tragedy ► 4 poems from the Norton selection Sir Philip Sidney Christopher Marlowe (1564-93) Sir Philip Sidney ► “The Defense of Poesy” (c. 1579/95), ► Doctor Faustus ► 4 sonnets from Astrophil and Stella Norton selection ► The Jew of Malta (1591) Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Edmund Spenser ► 4 essays from the Norton selection ► 1 tragedy or history ► 4 sonnets from Amoretti (1595) ► 1 comedy or romance ► “A Letter of the Authors” and 2 cantos from The Faerie Queene (1590/96) Ben Jonson ► Volpone (1605) William Shakespeare ► The Alchemist (1610) ► 4 poems from Sonnets (1609) Thomas Middleton John Donne (1572-1631) ► The Revenger’s Tragedy (1606) ► “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” (written c. 1611-12), “The Canonization” John Webster (published 1633) and 1 other poem ► The Duchess of Malfi (1613) Lady Mary Wroth ► 4 sonnets from Pamphilia to Amphilan- thus (1621) BRITISH LITERATURE (2.) Long Eighteenth Century: Restoration and Enlightenment Prose Drama Poetry John Bunyan William Wycherley John Milton ► The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678) ► The Country Wife (1675) ► “Lycidas” (written 1637) and 2 other shorter poems Aphra Behn Aphra Behn ► 2 books from Paradise Lost (1667/74) ► Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave (1688) ► The Rover (1677) Margaret Cavendish Daniel Defoe John Dryden ► “The Poetess’s Hasty Resolution” and ► Robinson Crusoe (1719) ► All for Love (1677) “The Hunting of the Hare” (from Poems ► Moll Flanders (1722) and Fancies, 1653) William Congreve Jonathan Swift ► The Way of the World (1700) Andrew Marvell (1621-78) ► Gulliver’s Travels (1726) ► “The Garden” and “To His Coy Mis- John Gay tress” (first published 1681) Samuel Richardson ► The Beggar’s Opera (1728) ► Pamela (1740) Alexander Pope ► The Rape of the Lock (1712) Henry Fielding ► Joseph Andrews (1742) ► Tom Jones (1749) Charlotte Lennox ► The Female Quixote (1752) Edmund Burke ► A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) Samuel Johnson ► The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abis- sinia (1759) Laurence Sterne ► Tristram Shandy (1759-67) ► A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768) 3 Reading List English Literature Version September 2019 Horace Walpole ► The Castle of Otranto (1764) Frances Burney ► Evelina, or, The History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World (1778) NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE (1. and 2.) Colonial Period and Revolutionary Era: 17th to Late 18th Century Prose Drama Poetry John Smith (1580-1631) Royall Tyler Anne Bradstreet (1612-72) ► Norton selection from The General His- ► The Contrast (1787)* ► 4 poems from the Norton selection tory of Virginia (1624) and other writings William Dunlap Philip Freneau (1752-1832) William Bradford (1590-1657) ► The Father; or, American Shandyism ► 4 poems from the Norton Selection ► Of Plymouth Plantation, Norton selection (1789) or André (1798)* or The Italian Father (1799) Phillis Wheatley (1753-84) Mary Rowlandson ► 4 poems from the Norton selection ► A Narrative of the Captivity and Restora- [* included in the Penguin anthology tion of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682) Early American Drama, edited by Jeffrey H. Richards] Cotton Mather (1663-1728) ► Norton selection from Magnalia Christi Americana and other writings J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur ► Letters from an American Farmer (1782), Norton selection Thomas Paine ► The Age of Reason (1794-95/1807), Norton selection Charles Brockden Brown ► Wieland; or, The Transformation: An American Tale (1798) BRITISH LITERATURE (3.) Long Nineteenth Century (Romanticism; Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian Periods) Prose Drama Poetry Ann Radcliffe Oscar Wilde William Blake ► The Romance of the Forest (1791) or ► The Importance of Being Earnest ► 4 poems from Songs of Innocence and of The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) (1895) Experience (1789/94) Mary Wollstonecraft George Bernard Shaw William Wordsworth (1770-1850) ► A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ► Man and Superman (1903) or Pygma- ► 2 books from The Prelude, or Growth of (1792), Norton selection lion (1913) a Poet’s Mind ► 4 shorter poems Maria Edgeworth John Millington Synge ► Castle Rackrent (1800) ► The Playboy of the Western World Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855) (1907) ► The Grasmere Journals,
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